Michel Cullerier's Lectures

Manuscript notes of 'Cours de Maladies Syphilitiques', a series of lectures given by Michel Cullerier (1758-1827), venereologist, at L'Hospice de V?n?riens, Paris in year XI of the French revolutionary calendar i.e. the year beginning 23 September 1802. A loose note at f.15 from Cullerier to a Charles Despines suggests that the latter is the author (note dated 'deux vend?miaire an[n?e] onze' i.e. 24 September 1802).ff.1-20 [Lecture 1]: Introduction; Du chancre (syphilitic ulcers)ff.21-39 Lecture 2: Rhagades (elongated ulcerations); chancresff.40-57 Lecture 3: Rhagades; chancres; pustules (pustules); v?g?tations (lesions); poireaux (warty excrescences); bubons (inflammatory tumours of the lymphatic glands)ff. 58-77 Lecture 4: Bubons; loupes (tumours/cysts); concr?tions osseuses (calculi); affections v?n?riennes des os (bone disorders); carie (bone ulceration)ff.78-97 Lecture 5: Carie; n?crose (necrosis/gangrene); douleurs (pains); onglade (in-growing toenails) et pelade (alopecia); tintement d'oreilles (tinnitus); epilepsie syphilitique (epilepsy); phthisies v?n?riennes (phthisis/tuberculosis)' ecoulemens [sic] v?n?riens (flux); accidens produits par le gonorrh?e (gonorrhoea)ff. 98-117 Lecture 6: Phimosis et paraphimosis; traitement g?n?ral de la maladie v?n?rienneff. 118-135 Lecture 7: Various treatments; the volume ends with a brief literary and historical overview of venereal disease.f.136 blank